The Final Weeks I’m going to be wrapping up this final installment and cover almost two full weeks of our Month in Australia, so it’s going to go over a lot of ground. I’m starting to write this section as we’ve been in Brisbane for 3 days, and by the time I’m finished writing, we would have been in two…

The Car As there are six of us, we wouldn’t have been able to get around without us having our rental car. We’ve now gone to several places and have taken two cars. I honestly don’t know how we would have done anything without a 2nd car. In an ideal situation, we would have rented a seven-passenger car so we…

Flight Worries, Weather Worries When we boarded the flight in Vancouver on our way to Australia, most of us wondered if we would experience any turbulence as we flew over Cyclone Alfred, which was directly in our flight path as we approached the Sydney airport. This turned out to be a non-issue as the flight took a slight diversion around…

Long Time Planning Planned further in advance than any trip in memory, our return to Australia started almost two years ago. I remember it all like it was yesterday. It was in May of 2023 when I made a promise to my cousin to soon make a return trip back to Australia. In reality, we would have eventually gotten around…

When the planning process was occurring for Our Excellent Australian Adventure and the subject of spending a few days in the Outback came up I have to confess that I really didn’t know what we were getting into. My first thoughts about “camping” were along the lines of what we did a few years ago in Tanzania while we went…

By the time that I publish this part of our Australian Adventures, quit a bit of our trip will have occurred and we’ve been pretty much offline through most of it so I’m writing a lot of this section during a 7 hour bus trip on route to our next destination but still within the Outback part of the trip.…

We thought that it was never going to end. I’m talking about the 14 hour flight from San Francisco to Sydney. There was one point where I was thinking to myself that the flight must have been half over because it seemed to have been quite a lot of doing nothing by this point. But when I checked my watch…